Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

In 721, the emir of Córdoba had built up a strong army from Morocco, Yemen, and Syria to conquer Aquitaine, the large duchy in the southwest of Gaul, nominally under Frankish sovereignty, but in practice almost independent in the hands of the Odo the Great, the Duke of Aquitaine, since the Merovingian kings had lost power.

* Duke of Cumberland, a former and currently suspended peerage of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom

In the summer of 945, he was captured by the Norsemen of Rouen and subsequently released to Duke Hugh the Great, who held him in custody.

The two monks later canonized as Saints Cyril and Methodius, the brothers from Thessaloniki, were sent to Great Moravia in 862 by the Byzantine emperor at the request of Knyaz ( Duke ) Rastislav, who wanted to weaken the dependence of his country on East Frankish priests.

Duke Odo the Great defeated a major invading force at Toulouse in 721 but failed to repel a raiding party in 732.

His youngest daughter, Hedwige of Saxony, married Duke Hugh the Great of France and was the mother of Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king of France.

# Hedwig ( 910 – 965 )-wife of the West Frankish Duke Hugh the Great, mother of King Hugh Capet of France

Other electors were added in the 17th century, including the Duke of Bavaria ( referred to as the Elector of Bavaria — replacing the Count Palatine of the Rhine, who was of the same family but had lost his title and vote temporarily during the Thirty Years ' War ), and the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( the Elector of Hanover-an office subsequently held by three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain, George I, George II, and George III ).

The Dukes of Bavaria, Württemberg, and Saxony made themselves Kings, as later did the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who was already King of Great Britain.

* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England

* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

* Archbishop of Vancouver, William Mark Duke, was also known as " Iron Duke " for being a strict disciplinarian and financial manager of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver during the Great Depression of the Dirty Thirties and World War II years

Some claim it was a Tatar invention and was introduced into Russia in the 15th century, perhaps by Grand Duke Ivan III the Great ( 1462 – 1505 ).

After two civil wars Vytautas the Great became the Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1392.

* 1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.

* 1480 – Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.

Although never Emperor, Henry I the Fowler, Duke of Saxony, was arguably the founder of this imperial dynasty, since his election as German king in 919 made it possible for his son, Otto the Great to take on the imperium.

* Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor and Duke of Saxony, died 973

Pope Gregory V, né Bruno of Carinthia ( c. 972 – 18 February 999 ) was Pope from 3 May 996 to 18 February 999, a son of the Salian Otto I, Duke of Carinthia, who was a grandson of the Emperor Otto I the Great.

Ivan III ( the Great ) finally threw off the control of the Golden Horde, consolidated the whole of Central and Northern Rus ' under Moscow's dominion, and was the first to take the title " Grand Duke of all the Russias ".

Carantania-Carinthia was established again as an autonomous administrative unit in 976, when Emperor Otto I, " the Great ", after deposing the Duke of Bavaria, Henry II, " the Quarreller ", split the lands held by him and made Carinthia the sixth duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, but old Carantania never developed into a unified realm.

Arguably his most read work is his biography of Anthony the Great entitled Vita Antonii, or Life of Antony.

His biography was written by Saint Athanasius and titled Life of Saint Anthony the Great.

) An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

A fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, The Great Ziegfeld showcases a series of spectacular musical productions.

Eadburh is mentioned by Asser, a ninth-century monk who wrote a biography of Alfred the Great: Asser says that Eadburh had " power throughout almost the entire kingdom ", and that she " began to behave like a tyrant after the manner of her father ".

It is mentioned by the monk Asser in his biography of Alfred the Great: " a certain vigorous king called Offa ... had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea ".

In his hagiographic spiritual biography Li Hongzhi is said to have been taught ways of " cultivation practice " by several masters of the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, including Quan Jue, the 10th Heir to the Great Law of the Buddha School, a Taoist master from age eight to twelve, and a master of the Great Way School with the Taoist alias of True Taoist from the Changbai Mountains.

* Brief biography from the Royal Institution of Great Britain

a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books of which the last eight survive.

Asser, mentor of King Alfred the Great, and writer of his biography, was a monk at St David's before being called into Alfred's service.

A vaguely worded biography suggests that he was pushed off of a cliff by Alexander the Great.

* Archive. org downloadable library source of Robert Crichton's 1959 biography The Great Impostor

* Schochet, Jacob Immanuel, The Great Maggid, a comprehensive biography, 1974

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr Burney

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great

However, Braid's legacy was maintained in Great Britain largely by Dr. John Milne Bramwell who collected all of his available works, and published a biography and account of Braid's theory and practice, as well as several books of his own on hypnotism.

The series started with A Very Great Man Indeed, which purported to be a documentary about the research for a biography of a dead poet and novelist called Richard Shewin.

In the influential eighteenth century French encyclopedia Encyclopedie, the entry on Woolstrope-by-Colsterworth is almost entirely a biography of Newton, this biography being so hidden because the editors of the Encyclopedie were ideologically opposed to biographies – see Great Man theory.

As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor ( 1801 – 1829 ).

4th century ), often referred to as " Antony the Great ", is perhaps the most renowned of all the very early Christian hermits owing to the biography by his friend Athanasius of Alexandria.

Steven Ellis, in his book Mask of Anarchy, says the President was found sleeping in his office, where the soldiers killed him, while Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's biography, This Child Will Be Great, says Tolbert was seized and killed in his bed.

Until the time of his death, he presented the BBC Radio 4 biography series Great Lives recorded in Bristol.

A biography, titled To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth, was released in 2007.